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An interaction study of a digital music stand

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University of Canterbury

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Digital music stands help performing musicians manage their music scores and assist them during performance
by providing a way of turning pages without interruption. Many music stand systems exist at the
moment, both on the market and in research labs. However, very few of those systems address the issue of
page turning carefully and no systems consider animated page turning methods. In this report we propose
and evaluate three animated page turning techniques. We also propose and evaluate three methods of interacting
with the music stand using foot pedals. Our evaluations indicate that animation could be a very
useful feature for beginning musicians; we also discover that using one control for issuing many commands
to the digital music stand is quite difficult and requires careful consideration.